{"id":5572,"date":"2021-03-10T17:04:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T17:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/?p=5572"},"modified":"2021-03-11T09:33:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T09:33:04","slug":"senator-de-lima-declared-innocent-in-one-of-three-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/senator-de-lima-declared-innocent-in-one-of-three-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator De Lima declared innocent in one of three trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Leila De Lima has been imprisoned since February 2017. She is being accused of being involved in illegal drug trade. De Lima is convinced that these accusations are a reaction to her investigations of Dutertes human rights violations in his bloody war against drugs. Her supporters as well as international organisations agree that her imprisonment is <a href=\"https:\/\/news.abs-cbn.com\/news\/02\/18\/21\/de-lima-lawyer-calls-her-acquittal-in-drug-case-a-great-moral-victory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">politically motivated<\/a>. &#8220;There are also no drugs that could serve as evidence for the accusations &#8220;. De Lima said in a statement, the charges have been used with the sole purpose \u201e<a href=\"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/1397089\/court-dismisses-1of-3-de-lima-drug-cases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to silence me and interrupt my work as a senator.<\/a>\u201c<\/p>\n<p>In February charges against her in one of three trials have been dropped. A small, yet symbolically significant step. Her lawyers hope that she will be released on bail. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philstar.com\/headlines\/2021\/02\/18\/2078668\/after-aqcuittal-one-drug-case-de-lima-lawyers-appeal-bail-plea-another\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">All pleas regarding this matter have however been denied<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Her imprisonment is partially keeping her from doing important oppositional work. Nevertheless, and despite her situation, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.abs-cbn.com\/news\/02\/18\/21\/palace-tells-de-lima-why-celebrate-youre-still-in-jail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">she continues her work as a senator,<\/a> especially in the field of human rights and the protection of democracy. Several NGOs have demanded her release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Leila De Lima has been imprisoned since February 2017. She is being accused of being involved in illegal drug trade. De Lima is convinced that these accusations are a reaction to her investigations of Dutertes human rights violations in his bloody war against drugs. Her supporters as well as international organisations agree that her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[63,58,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-rights-defenders","category-human-rights-news","category-internal-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5572"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5635,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572\/revisions\/5635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}